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    The Cincinnati Street Gas Lamps are a historic district in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Composed of more than 1,100 street lamps scattered throughout...
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    m3) of gas. This supplied gas lamps equal to 75,000 Argand lamps each yielding the light of six candles. At the City Gas Works, in Dorset Street, Blackfriars...
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    Lamplighter (redirect from Lamp lighter)
    person employed to light and maintain street lights. These included candles, oil lamps, and gas lighting. Public street lighting was developed in the 16th...
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  • urbanized region lit by or formerly lit by gas lighting using gas lamps for street lighting lamps. Gaslight District or gas-light district may also refer to: Gaslight...
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    incandescent lamp operating at a defined temperature. Light sources such as fluorescent lamps, high-intensity discharge lamps and LED lamps have higher...
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    Through the 1970s, neon glow lamps were widely used for numerical displays in electronics, for small decorative lamps, and as signal processing devices...
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    theater specializing in independent and foreign films. Side streets are lit using original gas lamps, hence the name "Gaslight District." There is a great diversity...
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  • western Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Western Cincinnati is defined as being all of the city outside of downtown and west of Vine Street. The locations...
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  • company began as a branch office of General Electric at 182–84 Elm Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, where Robert S. Finch and Morten Carlisle were employed. Work...
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    and tended intentionally, but some are natural phenomena caused by natural gas leaks, peat fires and coal seam fires, all of which can be initially ignited...
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    began running in 1851. The village streets were at first lit by coal oil lamps, which were upgraded by 1872 to natural gas; these fixtures are still used...
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    "From Tenaris". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved June 11, 2014. "GE Oil & Gas Buys Hydril Pressure Control"...
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    is used in mercury-vapor lamps and some "neon sign" type advertising signs and fluorescent lamps. Those low-pressure lamps emit very spectrally narrow...
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    fluorescent lamps. They can glow in different colors, depending on the gas filling or the chemical composition of the phosphor. Neon lamps have a characteristic...
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    Piccadilly Circus (category Streets in the City of Westminster)
    set up on the facade of the London Pavilion. Electric street lamps, however, did not replace the gas ones until 1932. The circus became a one-way roundabout...
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    flaming debris blew across the river and landed on roofs and the South Side Gas Works.: 148  With the fire across the river and moving rapidly toward the...
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  • when escaping gas reached his lighted lamp. May 27 – A large gas holder at the Cincinnati Gas Works holding 375,000 cubic feet of natural gas, exploded just...
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    Albert Steiner witnessed the construction of a new office building in Cincinnati in 1956. The steel beam and girder structure of the new building and the...
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    played a major role in numerous corporations and business enterprises in the gas industry, copper, and railroads. He became a close friend of Mark Twain....
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    ornate marble, cast-iron pilasters, hand-carved wooden posts, and gas street lamps. Two Georgia Tech graduates, Steven H. Fuller Jr. and Jack R. Patterson...
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    850 km); Central of Georgia (1729 miles); Savannah & Atlanta (167 miles); Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (415 miles); Georgia Southern &...
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    as home furnishings, plumbing, contemporary art, cosmetics, gardens, the gas industry, fashion, jewelry, and religion. The focal exhibit was the Home...
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    chandelier, as well as torchères. an eternal light, milk glass lamps under the balcony, and other lamps mounted to the walls and columns. The sanctuary has a variety...
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  • carbide lamps powered by acetylene gas. Two men in Indiana had patented an electric headlamp which Miniger believed would replace gas-powered lamps on automobiles...
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    capacity. Apple has received regulatory approval to construct a landfill gas energy plant in North Carolina to use the methane emissions to generate electricity...
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    treated glass as a form of sculpture, and created statuettes, vases, bowls, lamps and ornaments. He used demi-crystal rather than lead crystal, which was...
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    hidden – the first American car so equipped since the 1942 DeSoto. The lamps were mounted in rotating housings that blended with the sharp-edged front...
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    lamplighter had to be up so early is a mystery to me as they lit the gas lamps in the evenings, however, one night he moved his furniture for a party...
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    proportions that a Cincinnati newspaper editor labeled the city "The Pittsburgh on White River". Other appellations were "Queen City of the Gas Belt" and (because...
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    marked by a metal street sign that says simply “Lincoln Highway” mounted on the street lamp pole at the northeast corner of 42nd Street and Broadway. Holland...
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